Nima Khazaei

2911 16th St Apt 221 San Francisco CA 94103 Email: Phone:

nima@khazaei.net +1 (415) 300-0424

Experience
Platform Engineer, Own Point of Sale Corporation, San Francisco, CA. June 2011–March 2012
Led development of Nimbus, a Linux-based operating system for a tablet-based point-of-sale system. Participated in planning and implementation of mechanisms for automated system management at scale. Custom-built Debian packages to automate software deployment, and managed an in-house APT repository to distribute those packages. Wrote a simple physics simulation to implement a natural-looking animation.

Head of IT Infrastructure, Synod Residential Services, Ypsilanti, MI. December 2007–June 2011
Recruited, organized, and led IT infrastructure team which administered and supported Linux and Windows servers and workstations serving a company of 250 employees in ofﬁces across southeastern Michigan. Managed a network implemented with Cisco IOS. Formulated and implemented security policies to meet HIPAA and HITECH regulations. Developed a multi-factor authentication system using public-key infrastructure and cryptographic smart card technology.

Projects and Activities
HumanHash
An algorithm to generate cryptographic hashes in the form of English sentences, and a Python implementation thereof. http://darcsden.com/nima/humanhash/

poit+otp
An expansion of poit, an OpenID endpoint, adding support for authentication via one time password hardware cryptographic tokens.

Pioneer High School Robotics Team, FRC 1076
Mentored high school students in the areas of electical and computer engineering as they designed, built, and programmed a competition robot.

All Hands Active
Helped found a community workshop focusing on technology, and served on its Board of Directors. This ‘makerspace’ was the ﬁrst of its kind in Ann Arbor, MI. http://allhandsactive.com/
Last updated: June 25, 2012